It was 2010-11 and I was going through a bit of a mid-life crisis. I was turning 54 years old and starting to wonder what my life was really all about. Eight years before, I had changed careers for the second time, deciding that I’d had enough of working as a journalist for newspapers and […]
David Mercer On What Is It About Walking The Camino De Santiago
Last year, in between lockdowns in the UK, my wife Debbie and I got into conversation with a woman sitting at the next table in a café and mentioned that we were into walking, and walking the caminos in particular. Her face lit up! She had walked the Camino Francés from Sarria with a friend […]
Sharon Wakeford On Walking The Camino To Walk A Little Differently In The World.
Why not Annapurna or Machu Pichu? Why always the ‘same old’ Camino? A question carried with an almost sigh, a question so often asked of me, me of nine Caminos. And to answer the question, not an answer, but a few sentences of story. Stories whose source, is not found in bustle of Saint Jean […]
Darn You, Shirley MacLaine: Comraderies On El Camino De Santiago.
Some 20-odd years’ ago, Shirley MacLaine’s The Camino introduced me to the pilgrimage, and what stood out most was that it was a lone journey, an inner quest. As a woman traveling solo to process the first 49 years of my life and, in fact, turn 50 on El Camino de Santiago, I was prepared […]
Terry Wilson On His Addiction To The Camino De Santiago
This is not a travel log of where to go and what to do on the Camino. Rather it is a story of why I walked. It will give you some of the emotions involved in walking the Camino. When you see passages written in italics those parts are quotes out of my book. “A […]
Kenneth Strange On The Tragic Order Of The Knights Templar.
You can imagine my pleasant surprise to receive a Facebook message from someone I’ve admired from afar since my wife, Aurora, and I took our first steps from the French Basque village of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port bound for Santiago de Compostela in 2018. It was Samantha Wilson, a ubiquitous and prominent Camino presence whose CV alone should […]
Tracy Pawelski On A Mother & Daughter Camino De Santiago Adventure
In 2015, my 21-year-old daughter Juliet and I walked 500 miles from St. Jean Pied de Port in the French Pyrenees to Santiago in the northwestern corner of Spain called Galicia. It took us 35 days to walk 500 miles El Camino de Santiago, a 1000-year-old pilgrimage to the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela where […]